Lalit Kumar

Dec 5, 2015Teams of officials from the forest department, the Ghaziabad Development Authority, NGOs and student volunteers, who on Friday flocked to the Ghaziabad City Forest to carry out a census of migratory birds, were a disappointed lot.

Dec 2, 2015Pollution in the Hindon seems to be going from bad to worse. The GMC has, for the first time, admitted that 27 million litres daily (MLD) of untreated sewage is flowing into the city's only river that connects to the Yamuna.

May 2, 2015A two-judge bench of the Allahabad high court has ordered the Ghaziabad district magistrate to submit a complete list of industrial units causing air and water pollution, particularly in the Loni Development block of the district.

Apr 16, 2015After the recent spotting of pug marks of a leopard in Dadri, the Noida divisional forest officer has called in the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) complex in the area to investigate if there could be more than one leopard, and also any cubs, taking shelter in and around the complex.

Apr 15, 2015An NGO has moved the chief judicial magistrate's court against senior officials of the Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation and the UP Pollution Control Board for not constructing any sewage treatment plant and preventing the flow of drain water into the Hindon river.

Apr 14, 2015Illegal felling of trees is rampant in a partly waterlogged area in Indirapuram and more than 100 trees have already been cut, despite authorities' claims of increasing the green cover in Ghaziabad.

Apr 8, 2015Smoke billowing out of the chimneys of the industrial units in the Sahibabad Site IV industrial area are not only triggering respiratory problems in trans-Hindon colonies of Ghaziabad, but they are also causing air pollution in the neighbouring areas of Delhi such as Anand Vihar, Vivek Vihar and Yojana Vihar.

Apr 3, 2015Motorists from dozens of colonies and offices along the Hapur Road can now breathe a sigh of relief, as heavy vehicles such as buses and trucks are no longer allowed to enter a 5km stretch from Chungi crossing to the Dasna railway over bridge.